Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-02-16
AN ENOCH ARDEN
'srnS Up in Our Otherwise Gnro-
mantle Junction city.

Your reporter yesterday met Mr. Chas.
Young, young gentleman well re-
Rendered in Ogden, wi ere he used to
Menlaged in business Of different kinds,
|nMMe saloon business with Ed. Keys.
while here, having mar
|fhlhg in 1882. In February, 1888, he
tlet for Shoshone to contract for building,
kh which he was quite successful,
employing thirty men us Il rule. On the
&lhoi June, while he was in Il saloon in
bEliCh he had Il hall interest, there was
FkuilIe, in the course OF which one OF the
4 klgerents lost $50. Mr.. Young was
Iflged with being accessory to the rob
tkry tried in HALEY, Alturas county,
IN sentenced to ten years imprison-
j NeHt He went to prison in Boise on
u p I'd Of July, not having been able,
Enough lack OF means, to secure wit
hsseS to vindicatc him and establish his
nOcence.
His wife in the meantime remained in
ogden, being supplied with means by
4 Pm even from his mcagrc earnings
4 MIe in confinement. On August 10,
4 y, she bore girl, a beautiful little
r OH, While Mr.. Young was in prison,
i niher he had been sent by the per-
j ped evidence Of "niggcr" who had Il
uise against him, Mrs. Young got Il
( Yorce in the Probate Court oil Weber
J. unity, Utah, in May, 1886, and married
s'h IN the month Of June OF the same
Far, being welded to one Mr.. MARITIME,
Fl nIrOad man.
VI this latter fact Mr.. Young did not
eeNe knowledge until his arrival at
iOcaelIo, on Sunday morning last, when
was on his way from prison, II free
nG innocent man, TO meet his spouse
Nd child, not even then being
are OF the fact of his wife having
Ored the divorce. Here | must insert
I Mr. Young, after sad and sorrow
" experience OF three years, six months
q seventy days in ignominious con
E@lnent finally obtained pardon from
pTernor +. 4. Stevenson, OF Idaho,
n ,no whereas from very careful eX-
llallon OF the papers in this case, and
" Important facts disclosed by the
%E|V discovered evidence since The
sa ana conviction; and from iniorma
KY from other and reliable sources
rny stated in letters, petitions, atlidavits
n rH9rled by testimony, we'll authcnti
.CN by persons Conyersant with tin
n y,Is' showing only the grave doubts Il
~ We guilt OF said Charles j, Young G
n " charge Tor which he was tried an,
Sn'iCled, very clearly establishing in m
b rnT ms entire innocence" came to tn
suCiuSlon that Cannot therefore hold
IA E"9SIent with Justice to sanction longe
III ~ Imprisonment for the alleged crime,
nv vonSequcntly ordered his release,
nuI what release When he g
V rs1 TO Ogden where he left Il home an
n "ge-he came as an Enoch Arden
i"Ne hands with his wiic's husband an
nN child that has another man lc
"EI ,NllII he succumbs to I'll
G''NaoIe, and though victil
Winlio"ard circumstances he beal
IKE man should. He wi
tu5,urb the new household, but he
I"nH to them and will seek to recov,
Ir iuiure from the Neutrality-suspicious.
u'3ls OF the past. lie desires to G
KG. ms thanks Cthc warm depth
1,u can only be imagined from II di
n |9,ecl to all his old friends and Il
,nnlahres who are staying by him N
gsttH.nInIaling him ON his happy, thoul
"'GG'ly late release from undcRcrvcd N
W ''lple dOuhlV cruel uunishmpnI